Hedges v. Hedges’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Harvell v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (2007), State v. Torres (2004)
27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Johnson · Guinn v. Church of Christ of Collinsville · Reynolds v. Reynolds · Nickel v. Janda · Kiddie v. Kiddie
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But when reviewing an equity case, an appellate court cannot exercise first-instance cognizance by making original findings of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“and will not be considered to vary the order whose terms are to be measured solely by the recorded journal entry”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trial judge's statements in announcing the post-decree order do not constitute her "findings of fact”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.